Chewed Water

A fascinating and informative fictional memoir from the professor at Brown, an avant-garde surrealistic playwright, of her young days in Harlem in the 40's and 50's. with two mothers determined to organize her life Virginia finds herself at 18 with a baby, in Harlem in all It's dwindling glory...When Rahman is at her best, in flashes of almost unbearable self-knowledge, it's as if she's telling a sadly familiar American coming-of-age story for the very first time.